Miles Franklin Award-winners Alex Miller, Anna Funder and Amanda Lohrey are among an alluring line-up of literary luminaries taking part this month in the second Sorrento Writers Festival.
They will be joined by the likes of Kate Grenville, David Marr, Magda Szubanski, Don Watson, Ann Cleeves, Christos Tsiolkas, Julia Baird, Jock Serong, Tony Birch and Nam Le, as well as bioethicist and philosopher Peter Singer, and commentators and journalists Nick McKenzie, Hedley Thomas, Laura Tingle, John Silvester, Niki Savva, Greg Sheridan and Caroline Wilson.
After the inaugural 94-event gathering last year, the 2024 festival will run over the Anzac Day weekend with a vast, diverse program that celebrates Australia’s finest writers, academics and community leaders. It will feature 150 speakers and more than 100 events at 10 venues in Sorrento and Portsea, including the Continental Sorrento, Sorrento Portsea RSL, Sorrento Sailing Couta Boat Club, and the Sorrento Golf Club.
The Sorrento Writers Festival is on from April 25-28. Go to www.sorrentowritersfestival.com.au/artfuel/program for program details, day passes and session bookings.
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